In the first weeks after fertilisation, human embryos are not as susceptible to dying as often claimed that only one in three embryos make it to the term, reveals a new study. Dr Gavin Jarvis from ...

In recent years, research to create human organs and organs from cultured stem cells is progressing, and attempts to artificially synthesize human embryos in the early stages of development are ...

With each week of pregnancy, your baby-to-be is developing in leaps and bounds. In the early stages, they are called a zygote. They then progress to an embryo, fetus, and finally, baby. You might ...

Scientists have struggled to keep embryos alive in the lab for longer than a week because at the seven-day point an embryo must implant in the uterus in order to thrive and grow. But researchers ...

Week 3. Baby: Congratulations!If your egg and your partner's sperm have joined successfully, your embryo is really there, although it's very small -- about the size of the head of a pin.

How can a baby be one year younger than its mother? It may sound like a riddle, but there is no trick answer - a 26-year-old American woman has given birth to a baby girl who was frozen as an ...

It's also roughly the stage at which an embryo can no longer split into twins. The idea behind the rule is, that's when an embryo becomes a unique individual. But the rule was initiated when no one ...